What is ISBN ?

The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique machine readable identification number, which marks any book unmistakably. As of 1 January 2007 all book and book-related products must carry 13-digit ISBNs. What is happening with ISBNs?

  Help for users of Cipher Labs Bar Code Scanners and the ISBN

Customers of Dataman Barcode Systems who own Cipher Labs bar code readers may need to reconfigure their units to work with the new 13 digit ISBN number instead of the old 10 digit number.

Unfortunately despite requests from users it is not possible to set any bar code reader to automatically discern which ISBN mode (10 digit or 13 digit) is required, it is only possible to set the unit to operate in one mode or the other.

For those users of the Cipher Labs range of bar code readers (Model 1021 excluded) who need to constantly swap the setting of their bar code reader from ISBN-10 mode to ISBN-13 mode we have made a downloadable program chart available (see link below) to make this task as easy as possible. (Advisably requires a Laser Printer to reproduce the chart).

Cipher Lab ISBN-10/ISBN-13 program chart

 Dataman EAN - ISBN Convertor Utility

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have made this utilty program available for those users who need to convert their 10 digit ISBN numbers to the NEW 13 digit format and for users who wish to generate bar codes for current 13 digit ISBN's including the forthcoming 979 prefix.

The Bookland EAN-13 bar code image can be saved to the clipboard in .WMF format and used in combination with MS Word to produce labels if required. Dataman's TL44 and TL55 blank labels are ideal for this application.

An evaluation version of this program can be downloaded using the link below, registration is required to enable all features.

ISBN-13 Calculator & Bookland EAN-13 image generator